Blog posts tagged with 'go set a watchman'

The world lost two great authors on February 19, both of whose works evoked the spirit of place, even when the places were fictional, from Harper Lee’s small town in Alabama to Umberto Eco’s complex imagined world of Milan.
“The town is not a real town. The characters aren’t drawn from living or dead people. The book is a record of the general spirit of something,” Harper Lee said in a rare interview in 1961. “This was life in the 30s. This is the way it was with children in the South.”
Maycomb, Alabama, where Lee’s classic is set, may be fictional, but